Jaroslaw Smigielski

Jaroslaw Smigielski (22 January 1899-29 December 1941) was a Polish intellectual who lived in Ukraine. He was killed in 1941 by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

Biography
Jaroslaw Smigielski was born on 22 January 1899 in Horodok, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv Oblast, Russia). Smigielski became a teacher of the Polish language in Lwow after serving in World War I with the Austro-Hungarian Army's Polish Legion, and he decided not to move to the newly-independent state of Poland. Smigielski was well-known as an intellectual, and when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Smigielski was targeted as a Pole and an intellectual. He was executed by SS Einsatzgruppen on 29 December 1941.